Accompanies an exhibition devoted to exploring the manifold interactions of Renaissance Venetian and North European artists. Consists of 16 essays, analyzed separately, and eight sections of catalogue entries, all but the first preceded by an introductory essay: 'Prelude,' by Giovanna Nepi Scirè; 'Early Venetian Renaissance painting and the Ars Nova of the Low Countries,' by Aikema and Brown; 'Venice and Dürer,' by Fritz Koreny; 'Crosscurrents with Germany: the spread of the Venetian Renaissance,' by Aikema and Andrew John Martin; 'From Hell to Paradise: landscape and figure in early 16th-c. Venice,' by Brown; 'Titian and the North,' by Bert W. Meijer; 'Low life and landscape: minor pictura in late 16th-c. Venice,' by Stefania Mason; and 'Augsburg, Prague, and Venice at the end of the century,' by Martin. ;